being overweight is the primary risk factor for heart disease, diabetes, and certain cancers. One may get lucky and avoid these diseases but their quality of life will definitely be impacted in a negative way.
Our bodies don’t want to be fat, THAT is unnatural.
Look at anyone that has lost weight in a healthy, sustainable way. They always look happier and obviously healthier. They often seem like new people.
If you’re exercising, you can practice breathing exercises, which can help your structure. Personally. I don’t grind my teeth if I’m exercising consistently.
I think you’re lose credibility when you publish articles like this, and I use and like your product.
One story i like to tell these days is that of my mother (76) and father (78).
For 40+ years my mother did exercise for 4-5 hrs a day and listened to all the popular health talk shows. She was careful about everything she ate.
Her husband (my step father) more or less did the same and is a little older than her.
My father did almost no exercise and always loved eating bacon and whatever he wanted. He was always a bit overweight and didn't care.
My mother and her husband would love to tease my father at every christmas gathering. And my mom would get up and start dancing to prove how in shape she is.
My dad started wearing a mouthguard 2 yrs ago at my advice. My mother always disagreed and fought me on it. Her husband demanded i never even mention it when i was at their house.
Now my father looks and functions a SHITLOAD better than either of them.
But he's a good person and doesnt tease them about the fact that both my mother and her husband both look like feeble old farts now. And talk and function like it too.
i am less of a good person as my dad.. and so i like reminding my mother & her husband of how they used to tease my dad and now they're the old farts.
My dad acts probably a decade younger than either of them.
One last thing i wanna comment on is this statement "Look at anyone that has lost weight in a healthy, sustainable way. They always look happier and obviously healthier. They often seem like new people."
And my question is how many people do you personally know that were overweight, lost the weight, kept it off and were much happier and like 'new people' for it?
Please honestly answer.
Because i'm american and i have lots of obesity in my extended family. There are probably 6-7 people that i can say i've known since my childhoold that struggled with their weight.
Were always on diets where they'd lose a bunch of weight for awhile, but then almost always put it back on. Didnt ever see where they were 'healthier' for it.
They all ended up fat in the end.
Several of them died already.
I havent seen this happy ending you talk about once yet.
I agree with you that losing weight and keeping it off is a huge challenge. My point is that once one does lose the weight, they are a lot happier and healthier.
Do you disagree that it’s unnatural for humans to be fat?
I've met tons of people that could eat anything they wanted and be stick thin. Because of structure.
So your real question is... "Is it unnatural for humans to have collapsed structure?"
And i'd say yes and no.
It's natural for our collapse to worsen as we age and it's something that can be observed in history for many hundreds of years.
But it's unnatural that our starting structure is as bad as it is in kids in places like America these days. And it's unnatural to then further worsen it with orthodontics.
The lens i think u need to explore looking at it from is... what if I'm right?
What if... being overweight is just the body's natural balancing mechanism and the root cause is structure?
Well then people with worse structure would be more overweight and they'd have a higher tendency towards heart disease, diabetes and the rest of it.
But this does not mean that someone that was overweight who loses some weight now has a lower risk for heart disease and the rest of it. I bet if they forced themselves to lose weight they are in fact at even greater risk.
For me it's a question of logic.
And I dont mind 'losing my credibility' as you say. I don't write these articles so that people buy my product.
Don't wanna buy and use a mouthguard? Don't. It's not going to change what or how i write.
I care about what is going to be the truth. And i think when i end up being right about most of it.. the world is going to be a better place for it.
One can force themselves to lose weight and indirectly improve their structure because they’re breathing better, lungs are stronger, sleeping better, and less stress. All of these things will help indirectly with structure.
If they lost weight in a healthy way (diet and exercise), it definitely improves lung and respiratory health. That’s a fact. You get more lung capacity
My VO2 max improved 20 percent over a 3 week period just from walking 3-4 miles a day.
I'm interested in what you wrote about the teeth grinding. How do you know you grind your teeth? Tooth abrasion, fracture, facial muscle pain perhaps? How did you find the causality/corellation between grinding and exercise?
I catch myself grinding my teeth, mostly as I’m waking up and my wife tells me I grind my teeth in my sleep.
My dentist has also told me it’s obvious I’ve been grinding my teeth.
On both accounts this was only post covid and at times I was grinding my teeth in the middle of the day. This was never an issue in my life prior to Covid.
Now that I’ve been working out consistently again, I’ve noticed that I’m not grinding my teeth and my wife has said the same. I believe it’s stress related.
All you have to do is google it, there’s plenty of studies linking stress to bruxism. Stress, anxiety and depression have been found to have a statistically significant association.
being overweight is the primary risk factor for heart disease, diabetes, and certain cancers. One may get lucky and avoid these diseases but their quality of life will definitely be impacted in a negative way.
Our bodies don’t want to be fat, THAT is unnatural.
Look at anyone that has lost weight in a healthy, sustainable way. They always look happier and obviously healthier. They often seem like new people.
If you’re exercising, you can practice breathing exercises, which can help your structure. Personally. I don’t grind my teeth if I’m exercising consistently.
I think you’re lose credibility when you publish articles like this, and I use and like your product.
One story i like to tell these days is that of my mother (76) and father (78).
For 40+ years my mother did exercise for 4-5 hrs a day and listened to all the popular health talk shows. She was careful about everything she ate.
Her husband (my step father) more or less did the same and is a little older than her.
My father did almost no exercise and always loved eating bacon and whatever he wanted. He was always a bit overweight and didn't care.
My mother and her husband would love to tease my father at every christmas gathering. And my mom would get up and start dancing to prove how in shape she is.
My dad started wearing a mouthguard 2 yrs ago at my advice. My mother always disagreed and fought me on it. Her husband demanded i never even mention it when i was at their house.
Now my father looks and functions a SHITLOAD better than either of them.
But he's a good person and doesnt tease them about the fact that both my mother and her husband both look like feeble old farts now. And talk and function like it too.
i am less of a good person as my dad.. and so i like reminding my mother & her husband of how they used to tease my dad and now they're the old farts.
My dad acts probably a decade younger than either of them.
That is how this game plays out in my view.
One last thing i wanna comment on is this statement "Look at anyone that has lost weight in a healthy, sustainable way. They always look happier and obviously healthier. They often seem like new people."
And my question is how many people do you personally know that were overweight, lost the weight, kept it off and were much happier and like 'new people' for it?
Please honestly answer.
Because i'm american and i have lots of obesity in my extended family. There are probably 6-7 people that i can say i've known since my childhoold that struggled with their weight.
Were always on diets where they'd lose a bunch of weight for awhile, but then almost always put it back on. Didnt ever see where they were 'healthier' for it.
They all ended up fat in the end.
Several of them died already.
I havent seen this happy ending you talk about once yet.
I agree with you that losing weight and keeping it off is a huge challenge. My point is that once one does lose the weight, they are a lot happier and healthier.
Do you disagree that it’s unnatural for humans to be fat?
I view obesity as a direct function of structure.
I've met tons of people that could eat anything they wanted and be stick thin. Because of structure.
So your real question is... "Is it unnatural for humans to have collapsed structure?"
And i'd say yes and no.
It's natural for our collapse to worsen as we age and it's something that can be observed in history for many hundreds of years.
But it's unnatural that our starting structure is as bad as it is in kids in places like America these days. And it's unnatural to then further worsen it with orthodontics.
The lens i think u need to explore looking at it from is... what if I'm right?
What if... being overweight is just the body's natural balancing mechanism and the root cause is structure?
Well then people with worse structure would be more overweight and they'd have a higher tendency towards heart disease, diabetes and the rest of it.
But this does not mean that someone that was overweight who loses some weight now has a lower risk for heart disease and the rest of it. I bet if they forced themselves to lose weight they are in fact at even greater risk.
For me it's a question of logic.
And I dont mind 'losing my credibility' as you say. I don't write these articles so that people buy my product.
Don't wanna buy and use a mouthguard? Don't. It's not going to change what or how i write.
I care about what is going to be the truth. And i think when i end up being right about most of it.. the world is going to be a better place for it.
One can force themselves to lose weight and indirectly improve their structure because they’re breathing better, lungs are stronger, sleeping better, and less stress. All of these things will help indirectly with structure.
There are cycles both good and bad
I'm not sure that people that lose weight truly breathe better, lungs are stronger, etc.
At least i've not seen that to be true. But haven't researched it either.
If they lost weight in a healthy way (diet and exercise), it definitely improves lung and respiratory health. That’s a fact. You get more lung capacity
My VO2 max improved 20 percent over a 3 week period just from walking 3-4 miles a day.
I'm interested in what you wrote about the teeth grinding. How do you know you grind your teeth? Tooth abrasion, fracture, facial muscle pain perhaps? How did you find the causality/corellation between grinding and exercise?
Thanks.
I catch myself grinding my teeth, mostly as I’m waking up and my wife tells me I grind my teeth in my sleep.
My dentist has also told me it’s obvious I’ve been grinding my teeth.
On both accounts this was only post covid and at times I was grinding my teeth in the middle of the day. This was never an issue in my life prior to Covid.
Now that I’ve been working out consistently again, I’ve noticed that I’m not grinding my teeth and my wife has said the same. I believe it’s stress related.
but is stress the root cause? Or is structure?
And i can tell you that i dont grind even when im stressed. Same with probably millions of people around the world.
So in my view no direct causal relationship.
But will 100% of people that grind have some structural issues? I'm pretty sure the answer to that is yes.
If a person gets to perfect structure will they grind? Again im pretty sure the answer to that is 100% no.
All you have to do is google it, there’s plenty of studies linking stress to bruxism. Stress, anxiety and depression have been found to have a statistically significant association.
My point was whether there is a causal relationship.
I know there is correlation.
But our entire flawed medical system was built on correlation and not causation.
And i think it's gonna be flipped at some point when these biomechanics go mainstream.